Company Announcements

Ingenuity Systems integrated its IPA software with TransMed System’s XB Bio-Integration Suite, Geospiza’s Genesifter software for next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflows, and CLC bio’s software for array and NGS data analysis.

Advanced Chemistry Development entered into a five-year research collaboration with the FDA to develop quantitative structure-activity relationship toxicity models for regulatory and research applications.

GeneGo and Agilent integrated their respective GeneSpring Bioinformatics Solution and MetaCore pathway analysis engine to allow the upload of expression data.

Eagle Genomics announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with EMBL Enterprise Management Transfer GmbH that will facilitate its technical support for commercial users of the Ensembl open-source data resource for automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.

In December 2010, Macmillan Publishers launched Digital Science, a new division of the company focused on technology-based solutions for research. The Division combines in-house product design and software development capabilities with external expertise from a range of partners. Current partners include SureChem, BioData and Symplectic.

Macmillan Publishers announced that it acquired an equity stake in BioData, the provider of the BioKM system for life science research management.

Cresset appointed Hulinks as its Japanese distributor.

CLC bio reported that 2010 revenues increased 64% to more than $10 million.

Under a strategic partnership, Thomson Reuters is providing its Markush chemical structures and patents to users of ChemAxon’s JChem chemical software platform.

Product Introductions

SAS released JMP Genomics 5 in November 2010. New features include genomics wizards and architecture for custom add-ins.

Agilent introduced GeneSpring GX 11.5, which now interprets exon microarray, proteomics and metabolomics experiments together. Powered by Strand Scientific Intelligence’s Avadis platform, the software integrates Agilent Mass Profiler Professional software for MS data.

Chemical Computing Group released Molecular Operating Environment 10, a multiplatform drug discovery software package. New features include a streamlined interactive modeling interface and integration with the NAMD molecular dynamic simulations engine.

Integromics introduced SeqSolve software for tertiary level of NGS data. The first version features a broad-based RNA-seq analysis portfolio.

Cresset released the cloud-enabled FieldAlign 3.0 3D structure activity relationship tool, which now features native support for Macs.